Historical Events In 1743
Wednesday, 21 January 2026
Jan 20 Pascal Boyer, composer 


Jan 21 John Fitch, inventor (had a working steamboat years before Fulton) 


Jan 29 Andre Hercule Fleury, French cardinal (1726-43), dies 


Feb 01 Giuseppe Ottavio Pitoni, Italian composer, dies at 85 


Feb 03 Philadelphia establishes a "pesthouse" to quarantine immigrants 


Feb 07 Lodovico Giustini, composer, dies at 57. 


Feb 08 Comet C/1743 C1 approaches within 0.0390 AUs of Earth 


Feb 14 Henry Pelham is recorded as becoming British Prime Minister. 


Feb 18 Count Alessandro Volta, Como Italy, physicist 


Feb 19 Luigi Boccherini, Italian composer and cellist is born. 


Feb 19 [Ridolfo] Luigi Boccherini, Italian composer, cellist (Minuet). 


Mar 05 1st US religious journal, The Christian History, published, Boston 


Mar 05 US religious journal, The Christian History, inaugural published, Boston. 


Mar 08 Bendix Friedrich Zinck, composer 


Mar 14 1st American town meeting (Boston's Faneuil Hall) 


Mar 14 inaugural American town meeting (Boston's Faneuil Hall). 


Mar 22 Jean-Baptiste Lully, Ital/Fr composer (Forced Marriage), dies at 77. 


Mar 23 English premiere of Handel's "Messiah" 


Mar 23 George Frideric Handel's oratorio "Messiah" premieres in London. 


Apr 13 Thomas Jefferson born 


Apr 13 Thomas Jefferson, Former American President is born. 


Apr 16 Cornelis van Bijnkershoek, Dutch lawyer (Roman law), dies at 69 


Apr 24 Edmund Cartwright, England, cleric, inventor (power loom). 


Apr 30 Pedro de Peralta y Barnuevo, Peruvian playwright/poet, dies 


Apr 30 Robert Jasper van de Capellen, master of Marsch/politician 


May 01 Plague in Italy 


May 24 Jean-Paul Marat, France, revolutionist. 


Jun 08 Alessandro Cagliostro, Palermo Italy, adventurer. 


Jun 20 Anna L Barbauld, writer of hymns 


Jun 27 English defeat French at Dettingen 


Jun 30 Niels Schiorring, composer 


Jul 02 Spencer Compton earl of Wilmington, English minister of Finance, dies 


Jul 18 1st half-page newspaper ad is published (NY Weekly Journal). 


Jul 31 August R van Hekeren van Suideras, Dutch orangist. 


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